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HB, I think putting the bassinette in the cot is a good idea. A couple of my friends did this and recommended it to me, which I did and DS transitioned really well into the cot, worth giving it a go.
Con, I get mixed up with Liam's statistics all the time, she does sound like a little thing! I held a 6-wk old today who was so tiny, she weighed exactly what DS weighed at birth. Petite babies are so lovely :D
Bec, no I haven't had the Whooping cough jab, perhaps I should get it. I know DH got it with something else before I had DS. Would hate to give it to him. Surprised the doctor didn't mention it to me.
Missawah, I missed him too, I'm sorry. I had the t.v on and was hoping it would be on earlier than later, but must have come on when I was upstairs with DS. Were you happy with what they showed? What was the segment on?
Jellymaker, I was doing my head in with different 'methods' and books that people would tell me about. I also started second guessing everything I was doing and just decided to go with what I thought and not worry about what other people thought or did. So I say if what your doing works then stick to it and put the book away :D It must be difficult on your own when your DH is away. Enjoy the weekend ;)
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Hi!
I was just going back over some of our very first threads in belly buddies and I am happy to say that some of the ladies that lost their babies have new tickers which show they are preggie! Yay for them! scarypinkfairy was one of them, she is now 20 weeks preggie. I am so happy for them, it must have been so very hard when they lost their angels...
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oh that's great news! I remember TTC with scarypinkfairy...ahh those were the days!
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hehe talk about memories!
took hamish to the doctors today. he has bronchiolits. just keeping an eye on him. if he starts to wheeze or his temp becomes uncontrolled with panadol, i have to take him to emergency. he had a coughing fit before and vomitted afterwards the poor little guy. fingers crossed he starts to improve soon. i hate seeing him sooooo sick :(
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Hello everyone,
I better not miss too many days posting on here, there's so many posts to catch up on! lol
Con, Cameron is only begining to like his baths. He used to hate them and I used to dread giving them to him, so he only got one every two days. He now loves to be naked and kick for 5 or 10 minutes before bath time, and doesn't scream in the water. I put his bath on the kitchen bench in front of an oven which is on, so he's not cold. Unfortunately we only have a wall heater in the lounge room so it's not always warm in the kitchen. Yay for Grace being the perfect size for her percentile!
Bec, I had the whooping cough jab when Cam had his needles. I just have to get DF to have one too. How did you find the mother's group? Mine only started this week, and they go for 6 weeks. I misses mine this week as I forgot to RSVP and Cameron was really cranky that day......
Teresa, I hope Hamish is feeling better soon. It's good to get on top of these things. Keep a close eye on the poor fella. Big hugs hun :hug:As for your friend, I can sympathise with her but also understand your frasturation. I have a very close friend who can't have babies naturally (she's only got one tube and it's totally blocked...only option is IVF), but she has no money to do the treatment. When I got pg with Cam it was really hard for her, as she really wanted to do a cycle with me. She was a bit distant throughout my whole pg (that was hard as she used to sit next to me at work!) but then when I had Cam she came around and always volunteers to babysit for us. She's just got enough money to do an IVF round next month, I'm so happy and excited for her. It was frasurating when she kept her distance when I needed her support, but I totally understood where she was coming from as once I had a friend who got pg around the same time I lost Josh, and it was really hard for me.
B, yay for your little guy sleeping longer! That's alwasy exciting isn't it :p
Missawah, I am spewing I missed little Harri on TV!!! What a little star! Maybe that's his first taste of television and maybe he'll be on Neighbours or Home and Away one day? lol
Megan, I'm glad Liam's needles were fine. I am not taking Cam for his 4 month ones, I refuse to see/hear him scream in pain, so I'm thinking of getting Nanny to take him......only kidding, I need to be there to hold his little chubby hand, lol. This time I'll give him panadol before the needles.
Jelly, I don't like the sound of that book. Put it through the shredder!! As for DTD, I often initiate it unfortunately, but that's b/c my sex drive is a lot higher than my poor DF. Mind you, he doesn't mind me pouncing on him ;) ha ha
ReeRee, good to hear from you hun!! Hope things are well at your end :p
HB, we used to have a basinette in our room for about 5 weeks. Around that time I started sleeping Cam in his cot during the day, but he didn't like it straight away as suddenly he wasn't it this nice safe cocoon of a basinette. Cam loves lights, he's obsessed with them like his father. So, during the day I used to shut the curtains in his room and put this little dinousaur that glows in the dark and he'd be staring at it for ages, forgetting where he was. I did this for a few days but started to open up the curtains and then he was suddenly a king of his castle in the cot spreading his arms and legs and enjoying the room!!!! We now bought a cradle for our bedroom as the basinette was getitng to small, and he loves it. I rock him to sleep sometimes and b/c he's used to the big cot, he doesn't mind the extra room. My advice would be to place something familiar in the big cot and keep her mind off being in there iykwim. She'll soon feel safe and comfortable in there. We also have many toys (I know that's naughty.....!) which we transport from the cradle to the cot so Cam always has his mates to chat to wherever he is.
Meercat, I have the wedgy thing too. I'm plannig to use it when he starts to roll....
Phew, I think I'm up to date!!! lol.
AFM, I almost lost the plot a couple fo days ago, as Cam refused to take his full bottles. He would start off OK, and then spit it out after taking about 20 to 30 ml. I was getting really worried, and then my good friend who's got two kiddies, asked me what tit I was using....turns out I was still using the newborn ones and he was simply getting really frasturated b/c he couldn't get the milk fast enough from the bottle and would give up on it altogether. I put him on the bigger tit today (for 1 to 2 months, the newborn ones are for bubs up to 1 month :o) and he's already taken 2 full bottles.....helloooooooo!
Anyway, gotta get some rest, have a busy weekend ahead. Hi to anyone else I missed! Have a lovely w/e everyone!!
B xxx
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Thanks everyone, I think as of next week we will start to put the bassinette inside the cot for our day sleeps. Because she's such a wriggler, after her nappy changes we have always laid her in the cot, ducked around the corner to wash our hands, then grab her out and keep going with whatever. It hasn't ever really been a sleepy room, so hopefully we can create the environment and make her a bit more comfortable transitioning with the bassinette.
Have a great weekend :)
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Hey everyone!
Wow, so much to catch up on!
HB - good luck with the transition! We stopped using the bassinnet at about 7 weeks as Fraser was getting confused. It made such a difference to have him sleeping in the one place and is sleeping habits really improved.
Beata - that's interesting about the teats. I still have Fraser on the newborn ones as he chokes with all the others. He gets to about 80 ml then is just not interested. I have about 10 different sets of teats that I try every now and again, but he always gets on best with the newborn ones. It's maybe something to do with him having had his tongue tie repaired, but we went through heaps of suck training and he's going pretty well. Maybe I'll just keep trying!
teresa - really hope that Hamish is on the mend, poor mite!
Ree Ree - nice to hear from you! Are you still using the Heinz formula? I have a 3/4 tin that I can't use as Fraser doesn't like the taste and gags. You're welcome to it if you want it! It's the Gold variety though.
con - glad to hear that Grace is a perfect size - a petite little princess! Also great to hear about the other girls from the BB group.
That's as far back as I can go without my head spinning too much - hello to everyone I have missed.
As for us, things are going pretty well. I have finally stopped expressing (it was painful siitting pumping for 30 mins only to get about 20 mls), so I wasn't even getting enough through the day for one full feed. I ideally wanted to make it to 12 weeks, but 11 and a half is pretty good and I'm happy with that. Fraser seems a lot more settled on his Novalac formula, so I'm not going to change it, now that he's happy. I've been doing a lot of work from home while he naps through the day, but yesterday, I had to go into the office - which is fine, as I can take Fraser with me. Well, he cracked it - BIG TIME! Luckily, there was only one engineer in the office and he was very sympathetic to our little situation. Fraser was tired, and that was the problem, but didn't want to sleep when there were so many different lights and things to look at. I eventually got him to sleep in the Ergo for about 45 mins - he appears to hate that thing and screams when he first goes in, but strangely always falls asleep in it. The funny thing is that I have noticed he really recognises me now. He watches me all the time - if I go out of sight at all, he starts screaming, then stops as sooon as he sees me again and starts laughing and smiling. He's not too bad with DH, but he still likes to know that I'm around. It's really sweet but a little worrying! Has anyone else noticed this?
On another note, has anyone had hair issues? I have heard that your hair can fall out quite a bit after the birth, but mine is falling out tonnes and breaking! I coloured it darker last week which I would normally blame, but it was falling out prior to this. It's snapping a bit too - so much so, that I think I'm going to have to go and get it cut with a fringe in just to disguise it a bit. It did happen to me years ago when I had a reallly bad recurring throat infection and I lost a lot of weight due to not being able to eat. I have had a throat infection again for the last 3 weeks, but not losing much weight this time, as it's not nearly as bad. Maybe it's linked?!?!?!
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good morning ladies.
well i have had a crappy night with Hamish. took me 2 hours last night to get him to sleep. FINALLY fell asleep at 9pm. slept until 230, given a bottle and a nappy change then tried to put him back to bed but he woke up. FINALLY got him back to sleep again at 4am only for him to wake up again at 445am. played again with him, got him back to sleep again at 630am for him to wake up again at 715am. consequently i am exhausted!! i have never had a night with him like that before. hoping he sleeps tonight. going to stay in my pj's today and sleep when he sleeps. plus i have a cold now too so feeling miserable :(
anyway hope everyone and their babies are all good
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Miamunchkin, I hear ya on the hair loss!!! I have been losing so much hair in th last 3 weeks, I have to cut it all off next week as it's driving me nuts! After every time I wash my hair (I wash it every 3 days) the shower drain is just BLACK, it's so disgusting. I then have to dry my hair over the bath as if I don't do this it ends up making a nice carpet on the bathroom floor. When I run my hand down my ponytail I get a handful of hair. I have heard/read that after pg the hair loss can be substantial though. When I was pg I had noticed very little hair loss (less than before getting pg) and my hair was so shiny and full. I guess all the hair I acquired during my pg is now coming out! It's about 15 cm past my shoulders ATM (much longer than I usually have it) so I'm going to snip it just level with my shoulders so I can still make a ponytail, but just. Frankly, I just want to shave it all off as it's annoying me that much :wall:
Sorry to hear poor little Fraser went nuts at work....we're about to head off to a 5th birthday party today for my goddaugher with 30 or so screaming kids and many people who have not met Cam yet (which means he'll be handled a lot), so it should be an interesting afternoon :o As for the attention from bub, Cam watches me too when I enter or leave the room, but he doesn't crack the sads when he can't see me, thank goodness. He is giving me heaps of big smiles which is just gorgeous. As for the bottle teats (OMG I think I spelt 'tit' in my last post, oops :redface:) Cam is feeding heaps better on the two hole ones (the newborn have only one hole) but sometimes he appears to be choking a bit so I have to be careful. I think he's not used to the faster flow, but my friend told me to expect it and give him a few days to adjust.
Teresa, I'm sorry Hamish had such a crappy night :hug: I hate when that happens. Maybe he's still not feeling 100% or maybe even going through a late 12 week growth spurt? Cameron will be 12 weeks on 8 June so I'm expecting a lot of unsettled days/frequent feeds around that time. Mind you, a few days ago he fed every 2.5 hours one day and I thought that was strange as the time between his feeds has been streching out slowly. I thought then maybe he's having an early growth spurt??? Dunno. On Friday night, he was fed at 11.30 pm, and he pretty much took a full bottle, so I thought he'd sleep to at least 3 or 4 am.....he woke up starving at 2 am :o but then fed next at 7 am. I just don't understand it! I just feed him when he's hungry, I used to feed him every 3 hours in the begining, even waking him up for his feeds.
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Beata - am with you with the teat thing, I just changed bottles because she went up in formula to the tommy teepee ones and also the Aventi ones - have th 2 month ones with these however, the tommy teepee ones Matilda hated. If you tip them up the milk flowed straight out of them so she was gagging heaps. I changed back to the teats that she has to suck to get the milk out and she is drinking OK again. I guess it is all trial and error. As for the sleeping thing and feeding, i always feed on demand which has been around 4 hour feeds, however, she can now go up to 11 hours during the night without a feed. But is very hungry in the morning. I was doing the dream feed later in the evening but figured out the nights I did this she would continue to wake up every four hours, so cut it out and now she is sleeping it through. So now I never wake her to feed her unless I am going out.
Teresa - good to hear you know what is wrong with Hamish. He may have been having an off night due to the fact that he hasn't been well, maybe?
Clare - the hair thing. I heard that you produce more when you are pregnant, so maybe it is getting rid of it now? I'm sure I have heard somewhere too that you loose it aftere birth.
AFM - we have been invited away this weekend for nieces first communion - they have four kids an we can stay with my sister in law. However, is it bad that we are thinking we may not go because of the constant over stimulation and know it will be an absolutely exhausting weekend?
Humanbean - we went straight into the cot from hospital on bassinette level. We have a "family" bassinette that my sister was using as she had a bub in December. My parents were bringing it down as they were coming down to visit a few days after the hospital, so in the end I told them not to bother as we would have been chopping and changing. I have one of those safe and sound roll things, just boughht it from Target. It has two roll things in it and stops her from rolling. I am still wrapping her but I also put a blanket over and tuck it into the roll things, so it feels more snug. Also have a lambswool, that she sleeps on. Cots can be so big and at least that is snuggly.
Con - good to hear about Scarypink fairy. It is good to hear nice stories like that.
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bec - what tommee tippee teats were u using? we use closer to nature, and when Hamish turned 3 months we swapped to the 3-6 month teats and they werent fast flowing at all. the closer to nature bottles are designed so that it mimicks breast feeding but in a bottle. makes the baby work for their food.
afm, Hamish is much better. still has a nasty cough but on the mend. now i have a cold!!! oh well. DH coming home on wednesday. so happy. hate being bymyself.
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Teresa - not sure they came with the bottle, I have seen those close to nature ones in the shops and it wasn't them.
Hope you feel better.
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bec - i love the closer to nature bottles. the teat has an anti colic valve in them. my brother and his gf now have them and are rapt. my mum bought them for them as their DS has reflux and my brother loves them. apparantly their DS doesnt vomit as much on them.
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b - how exciting!!! we have friends in toowoomba and looking at visiting there at some stage. Hamish is much better. thank goodness i didnt have to take him to emergency. would have given my workmates excitement to see him and get cuddles tho!! he still has a nasty cough but much better overall. just need to get his overnight sleeping back tho!! i guess that will sort itself out soon enough. what does your DP do? i am guessing a policeman? could be wrong tho.
2 more sleeps till DH is home!!!
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Hi everyone :)
Teresa, glad to hear Hamish is feeling a bit better, hope that cough goes away quickly.
Mia, I cut all my hair off...and now I hate it being so short...it's at my shoulders but it was down just above my butt. Hair fell out a bit after Harri was born but haven't noticed it as much since cutting my hair.
B, awesome news! fingers crossed everything pans out well for you guys.
When Harri went into his cot (at about 6 weeks) he had a couple of nights sleep where he just wouldn't sleep at all, it was tough but we pushed through and now he loves it and puts himself to sleep most times *knock on wood*
AFM well today I found out that I've won a free glamour photography shoot! includes hair styling and make up for the whole family. Very nice surprise I have to say. Also my very clever Harri bear rolled over for the first time today!!! Very proud of him...I'm going to be putting up the video of him from the Today show on facebook very soon for anyone interested. Hope everyone is doing well :)
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Hiya ladies!
Becc, I have been MIA a bit - i feel a little guilty posting in here cos my little man is so good I don't wanna be bragging all the time, lol!
We are using the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottles as well - will need to upgrade the teat soon tho i suppose!
teresa - it's good to hear that the anti-colic valve actually does do something to help with your bro's DS, i always wondered if it was just a gimmick. Do you have the valve pointing in any particular direction?
mia - I am using the Heinz but I haven't tried him with a gold one before. If you don't want it I'll give it a go? Where in Perth are ya?
AFM, i'm going just great! Little Blakey is putting himself into a nice night routine now - bath & massage at about 8/8:30ish, wrap him up tight, bottle then bed and waking up about 5:30most mornings for a bottle, then back to sleep until 9! Still in his bassinette in our room, haven't tried him in the cot yet, but i might start him there during the day soon... He is feeding 4-hourly during the day, with a nap between most feeds. During the day he just sleeps wherever he falls asleep - in his rocker, swing, or my arms! He smiles and 'talks' to his toys, soo cute :)
I love my mothers group every thursday, this is the last clinic-organised one this week, so hopefully we continue on ourselves..
Got AF today, first time in a year! Haven't felt any cramps at all either, bonus! But the choccie craving is definitely here :P
OOhh, just found out that the anaesthetist bill i thought i owed $550 on is only actually $95!! woohoo!
oops, feed time now! hope everyone else is having a good monday!
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lol, i took so long to write my post that 3 others beat me!!
~b~ great news about the job, enjoy that wine ;)
Teresa, so good to hear hamish is on the mend
Misssawah, yay for glamour photoshoot!!! will be looking forward to seeing harri's clip on FB :D
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Morning girls,
Its crazy that this thread can go a whole day without anyone posting but then the next day i look and there's a whole page to catch up on!!! Crazy!
Becc- We've used the tommee Tippee closer to nature bottles since the first week for top up feeds and havent had any probs, i was worried Adrian would have nipple confusion but goes from bottle to breast really easily so they must be better than the slimmer teats. The anti colic valve should be facing up when you feed apparantly. We just switched over to the number 2 teats for increased flow and Adrian seems to be swollowing much less air now as he was sucking so hard previously with the number 1 teats.
munchikun- I havent had any hair loss (well, no more than normal) but i didnt think that my hair got any fuller during pregnancy either so *shrug* hope it stops for you soon. Having said that though i havent had a hair cut for ages and so have heaps of split ends, really need a trim to neaten it all up. I have a beauty voucher i was given when i left work so might use that now to get my eyebrows done and neaten up 'downstairs'. I usually do home maintenance but its never as good as a professional job LOL
HB- we've been putting Adrian in the cot since the second night home as i was worried i would kick his basinette getting out of bed, also, i couldnt feed in bed, just too awkward and uncomfortable, my nursing chair is in the nursery so it just made sense to sleep him in there. I still wrap him up tight for sleep so he seems cosy and comfortable. He sleeps in the basinette in the livingroom during the day or in his bouncy chair. I give him his last feed from about 8 til 9 and then put him in the cot and he'll sleep til 1ish, another feed, then til 5ish and then i bring him into bed with me otherwise he wont settle. Hope Fraser learns to love his cot :)
B- What awesome news for you, congrats!! I really like Toowoomba, its such a pretty city with great views but still has things like a big shops and movies. I think you will love it there. Wrap up though because it is soooo cold and windy up there!
Teresa- hope Hamish is on the mend, big hugs.
Ree ree- feel free to brag! You should feel proud your doing such a good job and have such a good baby :)
AFM- things are going ok, does anyone know what the signs of teething are? Adrian has been a bit unsettled of late and combined with greeny, smellier nappies, lots of dribbling and chewing on anything in range of his mouth, i think he may be starting to teethe but he is not even 3 months yet? Does this sound like teething to you ladies? And if it is is normal to start this early?
Everything else is pretty good, very busy over the next few weekends. Going to the races on the 12th for a friends engagement party so nanna and poppa are babysitting. I cant wait to get all dolled up with make up and heels!!! I spend so much tuime in my PJs now that the thought of fancy clothes is very exciting!!! How sad am i! Ha!
Have Adrian and DH an i booked in for a photo shoot on the 20th so hopefully i will have some nice pickies to post on fb!
Well the monkey is grumping at me for noms so must dash!
hugs!
